Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:37:59 +0000 (GMT) | From | Mel Gorman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/8] Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE |
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > >> The zone-based approach does nothing to help jumbo frame allocations. It only >> helps hugepage allocations at runtime and potentially memory hot-remove. > > Sounds like the max order based approach is better in many ways.
I agree but too many people are not pleased with the main allocator path being affected and wanted to see zones, so here we are :)
> Also avoids modifications to vmstat.c/.h ;-) >
-- Mel Gorman Part-time Phd Student Linux Technology Center University of Limerick IBM Dublin Software Lab - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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